When the Pakistani innings began, a hush fell on the stadium—that’s the way Aamir Sohail and Saeed Anwar responded to the challenge. They were scoring at over eight runs an over when Anwar fell. Then came what some call the turning point of the match. Sohail was plundering the Indian bowlers then. After another boundary, he looked at Venkatesh Prasad and seemed to make fun of him. Prasad came back and bowled him. Eyes blazing and his mouth frozen wide open in a sustained war cry, he asked the Pakistan captain to "get out". From then, the momentum of Pakistan’s innings slowed down dramatically. After two more wickets, on the dirt-track now were two men whom India feared most. Salim Malik and Javed Miandad ambled along as though they had some devious plan in their minds. But as it transpired, the two old men didn’t have a plan. Just a past.